Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, 2019-02-27 at 10:53 -0500, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> writes:
>> 
>> > 27/02/2019 15:35, Aaron Conole:
>> > > Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> writes:
>> > > > 07/02/2019 23:01, Michael Santana:
>> > > > > +python3.5 -m pip install --upgrade meson --user
>> > > > 
>> > > > Which distributions have python3.5?
>> > > > It looks very specific.
>> > > 
>> > > I agree, could probably just be python3 we need to check and see
>> > > if we
>> > > can just use that.
>> > > 
>> > > But, we did need the upgrade.
>> > > 
>> > > Travis environment comes up with ubuntu 14.04, which includes
>> > > python3.4,
>> > > and the requisite version of meson needs python3.5 or higher.
>> > 
>> > It could be a python --version check then?
>> 
>> Well, I don't know what the purpose of the version check would
>> be.  We
>> can tailor the environments.  Just need to pass the right
>> information,
>> that's all.  I think we'll make it look nicer, though.  We can do any
>> environment specific fix ups in the prepare scripts, which I think
>> makes
>> sense.  Then the build script can be a bit more generic.
>
> Travis supports Ubuntu 16.04 images now, which have python 3.5, I'd
> suggest to just use them (dist: xenial) so you can skip all the checks
> and the manual installations.

Great news, thanks, Luca!

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